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...QUOTATIONS FROM MAO TSE-TUNG, by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). Box, a monologue on art and life by the offstage voice of Ruth White, comes first and last. In between, Mao Tse-tung delivers Communist platitudes from a boat deck...
China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has changed course numerous times in its tumultuous 27-month existence. The alternating current is provided, of course, by Mao Tse-tung. His heart is with the radicals, who advocate violence to cleanse conservatism from China, but his head must sometimes nod to the moderates, who say that stability is needed before the revolution can make progress. Last week a set of new directives from Peking made it clear that Mao has decided, at least for now, on head over heart...
...Others: Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh, who also authored a play, The Bamboo Dragon, which flopped in Paris...
...attempting an end run on India's defenses in the Naga Hills at the eastern end of the border. The Naga tribesmen who live there have been demanding their own nation for 21 years and are thus receptive to arms, aid and instruction in guerrilla warfare. Mao Tse-tung, true to his own policy of supporting "wars of national liberation," has lately taken to supplying the arts and tools of subversion to the Nagas...
...knows better. Not since Mao Tse-tung managed to pass himself off as an agrarian reformer has power masqueraded in such an artful impostor. A Viet Nam-watcher for two decades (Vietnam: Between Two Truces) and a student of other power styles (De Gaulle), Biographer Lacouture has the difficult job of estimating a man who has made a career out of being underestimated and who wears ambiguity as practically his uniform. No wonder Ho and the book occasionally seem to dissolve into mist. But the tracking is never dull as Lacouture chases down his Asian escape artist...